
The expression apparently dates from around October 2001, when the then computer-science student Keunwoo Lee used it in a lexicon of computing. More like clocks losing a random number of seconds a day, in the wrong time zone of the wrong planet, in the wrong solar system. Hilariously, people who are consistently wrong tend to be quite confident in their position while championing it.įractally wrong people are often immune to the stopped clock rule because they are not exactly stopped clocks. Repeatedly failing predictions is one of the best ways of revealing fractal wrongness, because while an idiotic worldview may work in someone's head, it can be seen failing when actually put to the test. The term "fractal wrongness" may also be used to refer to someone who is consistently wrong on nearly everything they predict or claim. The condition of crank magnetism is a gateway into the wonderful world of fractal wrongness, as well as a relatively early warning sign of the risk of impending fractal wrongness.

That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview. The principal in the 1995 movie Billy Madisonįractal wrongness is the state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.

At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.

Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard.
